Guides

Practical, honest walkthroughs for hanging a digital photo frame on a screen you already own - no new hardware, no subscription, and your photos never stored on our servers.

• Turn an old iPad into a digital photo frame

  Give a retired iPad a second life as a digital photo frame. Runs in Safari with photos from Google Photos or iCloud shared albums, with nothing to install and no subscription.

• A digital photo frame without a subscription

  Wi-Fi photo frames often hide the good parts behind a monthly fee. Here is how to run a full-screen photo frame on a screen you already own, with no subscription and no new hardware.

• What to do with a Meta Portal

  Meta stopped making the Portal, but yours still has a lovely screen. Use its built-in browser to turn it into a digital photo frame for Google Photos or iCloud shared albums.

• Play a Google Photos slideshow on any screen

  Turn any screen with a browser - a smart display, tablet, or TV - into an always-on Google Photos slideshow using Google's own photo picker. Private by design: photos are never stored on our servers.